Nets GM King: Window to win title is 'this season'

Summary of 2 articles · Updated Oct 2, 2013

King said he's impressed with the way the newest Nets have begun "blending in" with the returners. Billy King believes the Brooklyn Nets' window to win a title is this season. "Now, this is the window this season," the Nets general manager said Wednesday … (more)at Duke University, where the team is holding its training camp. King said there were too many times last season when the Nets were soft. Billy King put together this Brooklyn Nets team to win now. "And we're going to see what we can do with this season and then we'll see what next season brings," King added. The Nets general manager said Wednesday that he's not worrying yet about the future and is hoping his series of offseason moves helps bring a championship to Brooklyn. The Nets acquired Garnett, Paul Pierce and Chris Terry from the Celtics, signed free agents Shaun Livingston, Alan Anderson and Andrei Kirilenko and hired first-year coach Jason Kidd days after he ended his playing career. Team owner Mikhail Prokhorov, who is due to pay about $80 million in luxury tax, has said his goal was to win a championship within five years of buying the team in 2010.